Player Toxicity Level in Wow
Out of curiosity. I would like to ask Wow Players what they think the level of toxic players in Wow is?
I ask you to please rate the Toxicity Level of Wow Players. In the game and the forums.
I define Toxic Players as. Players who when interacting with other players are Mean spirited, Nasty, Always Accusatory without a reason, verbally abusive either outright or in veiled insinuations, insulting. Disruptive in game play. Rude and Offensive in the forums. Demeaning. Utilizing Vicious Brutal language. Or innuendo.
So. What level of Wow do you think is composed of Toxic Players.
Please just Rate the level of Wow Players Toxicity by Percentage:
100% Highest Level
90%
80%
70%
60%
50% Medium Level
40%
30%
20%
10%
0% lowest Level
Optional Question:
Also If you want to please mention which games in your experience have the most toxic player base and which games have the least Toxic player base.
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Itās because everything is a competition. In similar games with easier access to gear and content thereās less of an elite crowd as a result and that greatly reduces the potential for toxicity.
Yes itās the players who are toxic in WoW but it is the game design choices that drive them to such lengths. I didnāt realize this until I started playing other MMOs and the discovery of such helped me find a permanent home elsweyr. Good raids in WoW though.
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Well I have to say people are a lot more toxic on the forums than in the games. So forums toxics are like a 90%, in game is more like 10%
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Iād say 5 to 10% roughly. It sounds low but that means 1-3 drama queens per LFR. One or two in almost every battleground.
It only takes one to make a night miserable for others.
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Iād like to think itās higher but the reality is probably sub 10% are actual scum and the rest are very mild compared to that and just an average person with an average reaction.
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It feels like 50% but thatās because of how much the toxic players stick out, in reality itās probably closer to 30% and depends on what type of content youāre doing.
Some guilds also try to prevent infighting by having rules against guild members trashing each other so itās typically more likely that youāll experience toxic behavior with a pug.
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Nothing compared to the toxicity of swtor pvpārs back in the dayā¦ But most of them came from WoW so thatās saying somethingā¦
In my experience its not particularly high and depends a lot who you surround yourself with too.
If someone is constantly encountering toxicity they should look at themselves first Imo
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The higher the level of content, the more likely you are to run into people that will rage if you cannot play on their level.
Itās offputting to people who just want to improve. Then they run into some parser.
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It is the nature of what is the internet.
Anonymity coupled with limited consequences seem to concoc quite the toxic brew, and wow is no exception.
I urge you to check out southparks ātroll traceā episodes it is great commentary on a similar subject.
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The forums and in game chat are the highest imho. Like 60% here and 80 in trade chat. 
Open world pve itās significantly lower with 5-10%
Instances get a higher rating around 15-20%.
In game Iāve met some really nice people! Of course there are those who are general holes, wearing their bad day on their sleeve and with rotten dispositions, but most adults playing are really good to each other. Because, ya know, mentality mature. 
I view the toxicity as an outlier and not the norm. Maybe Iām just lucky or choose to be oblivious, willfully ignorant if you will. I roll my eyes and move on.
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Depends on the content.
M+ and PvP Iād say the levels can reach 60-70% mark easy, outside of that I find itās pretty chill at 10-20%.
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Rift and AoC went through the same thing. When a lot of your playerbase are rage quitters from other games, toxicity is a certainty.
I would say about 20%. Thatās just my experience.
Most of the time my encounters with other players are friendly or neutral/forgettable. That includes simple Heroic/Normal/Timewalking dungeon runs, rare LFR visits, open world, /1 chat or whispers with questions and a little bit friendly banter. I do mythic/heroic raids and M+ with my guild so I canāt judge how toxic this stuff really is with random people.
I donāt witness much real toxicity but I donāt know if it has something to do with the region Iām playing in. I play with EU folks and I donāt get the feeling that players there are overly toxic while on reddit I see complaints all the time that the community is allegedly really really bad.
From time to time there might be some weirdo who starts flaming in battle grounds or declares everyone in LFR as āidiotsā, but imo these are more rares cases.
What Iām witnessing more is not really toxicity but self-centredness. Looting treasures while others still fight with 3 mobs next to itā¦ popping all cooldowns at rare spawns and then just shrug it off when someone asks to waitā¦ complaining about not getting carried through mythic keys while having little experienceā¦
In the forums I also noticed that some of the people who complain about toxicity are mostly toxic themselves and can get really insulting when someone doesnāt share their opinion that the community is allegedly a stinking mudhole.
Most toxicity Iāve witnessed was in the forums, especially the German forums, but I think the reason for that is that thereās little to no moderation. Really bad behaviour against other players there is encouraged because it mostly doesnāt have any consequences. Thereās been a player harrassing and insulting me for the last 2 years and he never got banned, which is quite sad honestly. There are a lot more REALLY toxic people who can do whatever they want. Sometimes this translate into the game too, where Blizzard often doesnāt really enforce their own rules.
Pretty much this. A lot of mmos have gone bust/lost too much of their playerbase to be of much use to anyone except the last few die hard hold outs. But pretty much all other MMOās are either dead or dying (that includes Lost ark, Ashes of creation and New world). ESO is circling the drain but may hold on for a bit longer, SWOTOR is basically dead. WoW and FF14 are a shadow of their former selves (FF14 hype is dying off now that Asmon has moved on). I suppose thereās Eve but only nutjobs play that.
Most other MMOās released are basically P2W vaporware.
So essentially you get the vast majority piling into wow/FF14 not including the P2W asian MMOās that get a lot of players but are simply not designed for the western market.
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for me itās the opposite , when you start doing high content , M+ get better , if the key is ruined , people just accept the key is depleted they donāt get toxic ( rarely )
They are mentally prepared to fail the key because you canāt really win every key at this level , M+0-+10 is the most toxic part of M+ , because it is where casuals players are playing , they canāt do lot of keys so if you ruin theirs keys , itās the end of the world and get toxic
- you have āāsmurfāā ( they do +20 on main) but they are forced to play in M+0-+10 bracket on new characters
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Relative to ESO its impossible to compare. Ive never run into any horrible players over there.
In WoW, in one way or another, its every couple days.
Comparing WoW players to themselves, I hit the 10% toxic players all the time with the 100%ers being at least a few times a month. And everything in between.
The last few years have seen me quit tanking on my toons because I canāt stand the attitudes. People started with the whole āGoGoGoGoā junk a few years ago and it snowballed from there.
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Just for the chronicle:
Ashes of Creation canāt be dead, yet, because itās still at the vaporware phase.
I despise Lost Ark but itās not dead or dying, imho.
I donāt despise ESO and Iād try it if I were younger. I think it has its niche.
Ditto GW2, which I played and is actually a good game.
FF14, though hyperhyped ad nauseam and not really a good game (more like a slightly interactive Netflix series), is indeed very successful and has an extremely āfaithfulā player base dogmatically sure that Yoshi-san can never do anything wrong. If WoW players had this kind of mindset WoW would still have 12 million subscribers.
Agree on the lot of P2W vaporware.
